... Ir has long been a discredit to ?? in agricultural operations in this country that they have resolutely refused to be enlightened with reference to vital points connected with their trade. It is hardly credited by foreigners -most of whom, as well as some of our own colonists, have pursued a directly opposite course-that while we could easily tell in any year the number of herrings caught and ...

... ISECOND EDITION, (leusTIa'S THLEGIFAMS.) SPAIN. MADRID, TrrrRnSDAY.-The different, Ministers have been ordered to have the statement of their respective budgets fog 1801 in readiness by the 11th Instant. AUSTRIA. PESTIS, TrenieaDAY.-TIhe new Imperial Patent has eased great ?? in Hungary, and will oreace freshl obstsel to a reconciliation between L tiungairy and Atistria. Herr Vent 1- ...

... 8The annual meeting of the Literary Institution was held on Thursday night, when the report of the directors wan passed and officers appointed for the ensuing year, We are sorry that au institution of such a kind in this town is not better sup- ported. Out of a ?? of 4000 not nearly 100 support It. 7The room Is well supplied with London and Bristol daily and weekly pa pera and serials, and a ...

... CrD t II, BRISTOL SUGAR MAR],ET, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4Tio.- to The market opened quietly after the. holidays, and only R very a- smelt buatnees has been transacted ;prics remain unaltered, D- We have been reqoested by the 1Ma4-or to state that he ed vri ohpyt eev n usrpin towar~ds the fund D oI enaie oad ftesffrr ythe late colliery 'l cietsi h orh uhsusrpin to be paid at the Liccruoae A Cozamis~t ...

... A meeting of suhaeoibers to the above object was beld ri yesterday at the 0ounclLiiroutie, Mr. H. Cruger W~illiam Mites presiding. There were PrOesent: Mr, W. Kt. Whlt, hena. seec; lie ltev. G. WVlliamsB, And Measre. J. J. Mogeg. W, P~. Mogg .V He rF TvgCWr.T.Bre, T. . Taylor, C. Clarke. F =hahndrR W. Gilee. J. S. Metford .ieier LW tvGreen, Swinfen Jordan, C. W. Savage, IL Vassail, J. W. Dod, ...

... BRISTOL TOWN COUNOIL. On Tuesday the first quarterly meeting of the Council was hold, when the notice-paper contained a more than usually lengthy list of eubjects. The Right Worshipful the Mayor sn presided, and there were present Aldermen Phippen, Naisb, n Alexander, Woodward, ProctorWebh, Abbot, Green, Robin- hi son, Barnes, Ford, Barrow, Adams, Fox, and Bigg; :Messrs. b3 Jose, Xempster, F. ...

... On Sunday an alarming fire broke out at the Crystal Palace, threatening at one time the destruction of the entire fabric. The fire was discovered in the northern transept, but where exactly and how it originated are not known. The prevailing opinion is that it was in some way attributable to the over - heating of the flues employed in warming the Tropical Department. The alarm was flashed by ...

... There was once a curd of St. Opportune, who vwas very different from the conventional idea of a priest, being tall, thin, and delicate-looking; a man with a stoop, though he was still young, and much given to all lawful study. EHe lived in isn age which has long passed away, yet he was behind It, for be held most antiquated opinions upon the obedience which is due from wives to their husbands, ...

... 404d£An jultuipae . FRANCE. PARIS, SATURDAY.-An Imperial decree has been pub- lished, based on the law of the 19th Way, 1866, abolishing tonnage dues in French ports on and after the let January, 1867, except for vessels of those nations which, like the United States, impose differential duties ?? vessels in their own ports. The report of M. Behic, which precedes the decree, tates that the ...

... au JANU A rmY . - SATDRDAY, JANUJARY S. 1867, The speech of the Emperor Napoleon, at the usual reception of the Ambassadors, oR New Year's Day, is h considered remarkably pacific, In replying to the con- b gratulations of the diplomatic body, his Majesty J expressed his wishes for the stability of thrones and the n prosperity of nations, and said he hoped `iat Europe ti was entering upon a ...

... During last week i1t wrecks were reported, making for the past year a total of 2096. Last week one steamer brought from France the ncrlirmous number of 26,000 geese for the London market. An Innovationl has been quite recently noticed in ladles' dresses, let ornaments having been replaced by amber. The pilots of New York pilot boart NO5 1 have accepted a challenge from pilut Neo. iC to race to ...

... . What complaint is gaS silflted with? Consamption. AN UNGALLANT CONUNDEtIMu-WhY are chapels like some ladies ? Because there is no living with them. NOR EVEi: WILL Bu.-An Irish editor in speaking or the miseries of Ireland, says:- Her Cau ni misery has been for ages overlowing, and ie sot yet fuill' Au American newspaper, in publishing the marriage of an old man with a young girl, appends ...